1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Singapore
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Singapore—5,638,700, Asia/Singapore, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Singapore is GeoNames ID 1880252. Its recorded administrative path is Singapore, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Singapore occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2025-07-23; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Singapore ranks 51 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Singapore entries it ranks 1; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 34. Its 5,638,700 population value is 1.00 times the 5,638,700 median for the country cohort and 5.59 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Singapore is rank 1 among the 1 selected Singapore entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Singapore's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Singapore's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Pasir Gudang at 20.122 km with 534,659 recorded people; Johor Bahru at 22.079 km with 858,118 recorded people; Batam at 24.923 km with 1,296,960 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 4.801 km. Compared with Pasir Gudang, Singapore's recorded population is 10.55 times as large. Against Singapore, Pasir Gudang follows Daerah Johor Baharu → Johor → Malaysia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Malaysia cohort rather than Singapore, uses Asia/Kuala_Lumpur instead of Asia/Singapore, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Singapore's. Against Singapore, Johor Bahru follows Daerah Johor Baharu → Johor → Malaysia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Malaysia cohort rather than Singapore, uses Asia/Kuala_Lumpur instead of Asia/Singapore, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Singapore's. Against Singapore, Batam follows Riau → Indonesia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Indonesia cohort rather than Singapore, uses Asia/Jakarta instead of Asia/Singapore, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Singapore's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 263 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Singapore's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 1880252, the coordinate pair 1.2897 / 103.8501, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 1732722 at 20.122 km bind Singapore to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Singapore's reference point is 1.2897° north and 103.8501° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Singapore is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Singapore's row carries neither a first- nor second-order administrative label in this source. Singapore's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Singapore's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Singapore, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Singapore's closest other entries in this atlas are Pasir Gudang (20.122 km), Johor Bahru (22.079 km), Batam (24.923 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-07-23; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.